Jan Goodman, Founder and President, Boston Cityscapes

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Jan has been in the interior plantscape industry for over 40 years. She is in her 30th year as founder and President of Cityscapes Boston, one of the largest interiorscape companies in the United States. She has a degree in landscape design and horticultural technology from the University of NH. She is a registered provider for AIA CEU credits. Jan is often a speaker at national landscape conferences, such as TPIE, BOMA International, and American Hort’s Cultivate.

She is a highly active member of her local BOMA chapter. Jan has served on BOMA’s Charity Benefit Committee since 2006. Jan and Cityscapes received BOMA Boston’s Prestigious “Affiliate Company and Member of the Year Awards” in 2008 and 2010.  

Jan is regularly active in charity work for several non-profit organizations. For the past 10 years (excluding 2020), she has set up Pot-a Plant at the Special Olympics at Harvard Stadium. In 2020 Jan received an “Outstanding Community Service” award from the Brookview shelter for homeless women and children, where she and her company volunteer on a regular basis. 

For the last 15 years, Jan has been on the Board of Directors for “Green Plants for Green Buildings,” supporting the initiative to communicate the aesthetic, well-being, and economic benefits of nature in the built environment. She also was inducted into Cultivates Interiorscape Hall of Fame in 2016. In 2019 she started a charitable offshoot of Cityscapes called Transplanted.  A roaming greenhouse that is a pop-up plant shop on wheels! All profits go to local, national, and international charities. Sprout the plant truck has donated over $20,000.00 year to date. Truly living Cityscape’s mission of “Transforming People’s Lives through the Power of Plants”

Additionally, she continually mentors colleagues and companies in the plantscaping world to help future generations of the industry be their best.